Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 51
fane tread. Any simple device suchas a lofty flagstaff would be adopted to give it importancefrom afar, and on the occasion of the festival every kind ofdecoration in the form of fluttering streamers, branches ofgreen trees, garlands of flowers, would be lavished on thebuilding and its approaches.… … Fig. 7.—Early Egyptian shrines,from hieroglyphic inscriptions. chaf. i The Greek Temple 33 is accommodation for the &dituus, or guardian of theshrine and its contents, but he probably lived in the hutitself, just as in the early record contained in Exodusxxxiii. 11, Joshua lives as sEdituus in…
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